In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of 'technology' itself a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a common development toward increasingly efficient technologies. Instead it argues that modern technology implies a kind of global 'zero-sum game' involving uneven resource flows, which make it possible for wealthier parts of global society to save time and space at the expense of humans and environments in the poorer parts.
In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of 'technology' itself a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a common development toward increasingly efficient technologies. Instead it argues that modern technology implies a kind of global 'zero-sum game' involving uneven resource flows, which make it possible for wealthier parts of global society to save time and space at the expense of humans and environments in the poorer parts.
Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Zero-Sum World: How to Think about Ecologically Unequal Exchange 2. Fetishism, Dissociation, and the Cultural Analysis of Capitalism 3. Historical Political Ecology: Progress as Environmental Load Displacement 4. Toward a Truly Global Environmental History 5. The Unequal Exchange of Time and Space 6. Value, Unequal Exchange, and Uneven Development 7. Vital Signs: How Money Transforms Ecosystems 8. Possible Moneys and Impossible Machines: To Intervene in the Logic of Capitalism
Introduction 1. Zero-Sum World: How to Think about Ecologically Unequal Exchange 2. Fetishism, Dissociation, and the Cultural Analysis of Capitalism 3. Historical Political Ecology: Progress as Environmental Load Displacement 4. Toward a Truly Global Environmental History 5. The Unequal Exchange of Time and Space 6. Value, Unequal Exchange, and Uneven Development 7. Vital Signs: How Money Transforms Ecosystems 8. Possible Moneys and Impossible Machines: To Intervene in the Logic of Capitalism
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